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3 hours ago, DesertNewsGeek said:

Here's hoping they'll adopt the Trib implementation, as it looks much better.

The Tribune stations' sites are very nice.

8 hours ago, oknewsguy said:

Yes it does. Because without the Media General merger Nexstar would still be making the same mistakes they made pre-MG

I seem to recall that Media General was making a lot of its own mistakes pre-LIN. Would that Media General have improved Nexstar as much as MG/LIN has?

22 minutes ago, oknewsguy said:

Media General decided to bring in the leadership team over from LIN (which has since carried over to Nexstar)

That doesn't mean Media General should get sole credit for the improvements to Nexstar.

11 hours ago, oknewsguy said:

Here's the deal with Nexstar:

 

Yes the Media General merger and its influence has made an impact on Nexstar (and I fully expect the Tribune acquisition to be the same for Nexstar)

You can thank Media General's merger with LIN for that. I mean, how do you think MG started getting better?

Oh, definitely option B.

Sadly, I can also see Sinclair going scorched earth with the affected stations, removing equipment, laying off nearly all of the employees, and generally dismantling the stations so that any potential buyers won't get much.

Those look pretty good.

23 hours ago, Breaking News said:

Yes, there was an article in some publication where BNS management wanted Yolanda, but she was under contract with WSYX at the time.   Kristyn was a horrible choice as Andrea's replacement. In some cases it always hard to find the right candidate when replacing someone who been there a long time.  BNS whole contemporary branding/image is not them.  It's the station with the old guard, but what they're not good at is the young demo where WSYX does well in.  I read Mitch wasn't well liked in Phoenix, but did a good job at WTOL, but I guess that because of WTOL's #1 status during his time there.

Just out of curiosity, how does WTHR do with the young demo in its market?

Shame they couldn't be on the air from the basement.

On 2/16/2019 at 5:28 AM, AmericanErrorist said:

The 700 Club thing is just a perpetually valid contract. Disney offered CBN a year's worth of the money they get from airing the show and its semi-annual telethons to buy it out, but Pat declined.

Disney can just wait for Pat to pass away and hope his successor is open to a deal.

13 hours ago, Eat News said:

A meteor has hit Venezuela...and nothing yet from CNN ...or anyone else.

 

Not even the BBC. That's impressive.

2 hours ago, GoldenShine9 said:

 

I wonder how they felt at WWL being forced to air the Super Bowl which their home team was robbed in? I do think the Saints will be seen as the "real" winners in the end.

Or WDSU, watching their colleagues at WCVB, WMUR, and WMTW celebrate another Patriots win.

15 hours ago, Ramona said:

84 mic flags. Wow.

So, who's the poor schmuck who has to keep track of all those mic flags this week? And do they all have to be shipped back to their respective stations?

That would be even more impressive if it was in numeric order. 

18 minutes ago, WAVY 10 Fan said:

Here's to someone reputable getting that station away from this guy ASAP.

Paging Sinclair...

3 hours ago, TennTV1983 said:

 

And yet, she came from a TEGNA station that was competing against a Sinclair-owned station in Seattle before getting hired by the Smith Empire to compete against her now-former employer in DC. This should be fun.

I'm guessing KING was generally beating KOMO in the ratings...

4 hours ago, scrabbleship said:

Chet and Nat were married to others before they were married to each other and Chet had kids with his first wife. Heck, Jacobson was the last name of Nat's first husband!

That's not what I meant.

1 hour ago, TresGriffin said:

I suppose they’ll be the Chet and Nat of Cincinnati.

Hopefully with a better ending.

1 hour ago, rkolsen said:

Think it’s safe to say just for WMUR. All other stations got Diagrid 2.0. 

So, basically, the guy didn't want to single out WMUR by name? Fair enough.

1 hour ago, rkolsen said:

Definitely not worth its own thread but it appears the WMUR graphics package is called RINGS according to this one post on Vimeo from a hub designer.

Cool, thanks for that.

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As a graphics hub for all of the Hearst owned stations, we have developed an alternate design package called "RINGS" for the stations who might share part of the same DMA as those who use the "DIAGRID" design.

So, not just WMUR?

(Mods, feel free to move this if necessary.)

So, their entire operation -- studio, production facility, offices, maintenance -- is in that building?

I'm pretty sure my parents' house is bigger than that, and they do not have a big house.

One more example of why you should always proofread content before pushing it live.

Something disappeared from the Breakroom group, but I don't know what it was. Go figure.

5 hours ago, east-tx-tv said:

I wondered how well the 1A-to-6A thing was going.  I'd probably be out of breath if I had to dodge traffic and run across a plaza, and then find the red light and correct camera--and look like I just walked across a hall.

What, they don't have an underground tunnel connecting the buildings?

20 minutes ago, J1975am said:

That’s the first time I’ve ever seen a TV station’s logo resemble an interstate sign. There is at least one radio station I know of that has a similar logo (KYKZ-FM in Lake Charles, LA), but their logo utilizes the complete interstate logo design, whereas KTXA’s interstate logo doesn’t.....

KOBI and KOTI say hi.

1 hour ago, oknewsguy said:

So either way, it's a lose-lose situation for Tribune

Precisely.